33% renewable
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as near-zero wind and no solar force heavy imports at 9.7 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 32%
33%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.1 GW
Total generation
-9.7 GW
Net import
137.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.5°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
Carbon intensity
473
gCO₂/kWh
EU 2023
242
242
DE 2023
~380
~380
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Now: 473 gCO₂/kWh
EU 2023: 242 gCO₂/kWh
DE 2023: ~380 gCO₂/kWh
Today avg: 437 gCO₂/kWh
Direct operational emissions (combustion only). Wind · solar · hydro · biomass: 0 gCO₂/kWh.
Lignite: 820 · Hard coal: 750 · Gas (CCGT): 490. Sources: UBA, IPCC AR6.
7-day renewable share
Day-ahead price & residual load — 9 March 2026
Residual load = consumption − wind − solar. It is the net demand that dispatchable plants — coal, gas, biomass, hydro, storage — plus cross-border exchanges must balance. When it is high, expensive thermal capacity is needed and prices rise with it. As residual load falls, wind and solar displace more thermal generation, pulling prices down. When it turns negative, wind and solar output alone exceeds all consumption: controllable plants ramp to their technical minimums, storage absorbs what it can, and the grid exports heavily — often with prices turning negative too.
Earlier readings
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37% renewable
Beneath a starless vault of frozen cloud, the lignite furnaces breathe their ancient carbon into the night—Germany's hunger outpaces her own fires, and distant borders feed the darkened grid its missing flame. The turbines stand half-idle in still air, sentinels awaiting a wind that will not come before the dawn.
9 March 2026, 03:00
40% renewable
Beneath a moonless vault of frozen black, the lignite furnaces roar their ancient debt—towers breathing white ghosts into the stillness while the sleeping land draws power it cannot repay. The turbines on the far horizon turn so slowly they seem to dream, their whispered watts lost in the coal-dark hunger of the night.
9 March 2026, 02:00
43% renewable
Beneath a moonless vault of frozen stars, the furnaces of lignite roar their ancient breath, while distant turbine blades carve slow arcs through the northern dark. The grid strains and shivers, hungering for watts the night cannot provide.
9 March 2026, 01:00
45% renewable
Beneath a cold and starless March sky, the furnaces of lignite never sleep, their crimson breath mingling with the slow turning of wind blades on distant ridgelines. The grid groans under winter's lingering grip, importing power across dark borders to feed a nation's midnight hunger.
9 March 2026, 00:00
48% renewable
Beneath a moonless vault the furnaces exhale, lignite towers breathing pale columns into the dark—turbines turn unseen on distant ridgelines, their blades carving wind into light for a nation that will not sleep. The price of warmth glows amber in the ledgers of the night, each megawatt wrested from the earth's deep seams.
8 March 2026, 21:00
47% renewable
The sun has abandoned the March evening sky, leaving brown coal's towers to exhale their burden into the thickening dusk. Wind turns lazily at 2.1 km/h—a whisper too faint to spare the furnaces their work.
8 March 2026, 20:00
46% renewable
Lignite giants breathe their heaviest into the twilight, their towers ghostly white against gathering darkness, while scattered turbines turn lazily in dying March winds. The grid strains taut as a wire, imports flowing across borders to bridge the chasm between what burns and what is needed.
8 March 2026, 19:00
42% renewable
Twilight steals the sun's last whisper—just a tenth of a gigawatt flickers where panels stood proud at noon. Now lignite's ancient towers breathe thick into the dimming sky, their eleven gigawatts filling the gap while turbines spin steady but insufficient against the hungry evening grid.
8 March 2026, 18:00
66% renewable
In the deep March night, wind turbines carve invisible arcs through crystalline air, their spinning abundance driving prices down while coal plants rumble in reluctant support. The grid breathes in balance—two-thirds clean, one-third earthbound—as Germany sleeps beneath a star-pierced sky.
2 March 2026, 00:00
66% renewable
Turbine blades slice through March's midnight cold, their spinning arms commanding two-thirds of the nation's pulse while coal fires smolder in reluctant service. The grid breathes steadily at sixty-five euros, neither gasping nor drowning, as invisible wind currency pays the dark hour's debt.
2 March 2026, 00:00
87% renewable
Forty thousand turbines roar their symphony across German hills while the sun breaks through February clouds, together drowning the grid in green abundance until electricity becomes cheaper than silence. Coal and gas huddle in the corner, their fires banked low, waiting for a wind lull that will not come today.
23 February 2026, 12:00
84% renewable
Invisible turbines harvest the winter night, their electric abundance flowing across borders while coal plants idle in the darkness. The grid exhales surplus into neighboring lands—a mechanical generosity born of February's restless atmospheric rivers.
23 February 2026, 00:00